Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.